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Victor Galindez of Argen tina wearing victorys laurel is congratulated by challenger Harold Skog of Norway after Galindez RETAINS LIGHTHEAVYWEIGHT TITLE retained his world light heavyweight boxing title in Oslo Sunday night Galindez 27 knocked out Skog with flurry of punches to the bodv and head in the third round of their scheduled 15round championship fight AP Photo Skips his US rink to title Roberts achieves ambition DULUTH Minn CP Calling himself kooky anyhow Bruce Roberts said Sunday that he achieved life long ambition when he skipped his United States rink to victory in the world curling cham pionship The 33yearold elementary school teacher was happy to tell about his drive for the title fol lowing 65 triumph over Wil liam Muirhead of Scotland in Sundays final game for the Air Canada silver broom The seed was planted when Roberts was boy He became interested in the sport when his father took him to the Buhl Minn curling club near his hometown of Hibbing played games with my self said Roberts One of the windows they couldnt lock so sneaked in at night by myself There was enough light from the lobby sol could see So would get in the hack and broadcast the game to myself Im kind of kooky anyhow would be firing most times for the championship of the world guess was about nine or 10 at the time Roberts appeared to be loaded with confidence and was often called cocky by rivals and nonUS observers His rink which also included brother Jo seph at third Gary Kleffmann at second and Jerry Scott as leadled the roundrobin standings with an 81 record Bengt Cederwell of Sweden handed the US rink its only defeat in Thursdays seventh round winning 93 but Roberts reversed the score in semifinal play Saturday afternoon In the other semifinal Muir head defeated Adolph Aemi of Switzerland 53 Aerni was seeking the second consecutive title for Switzerland which won last year under the direction of Ottio Danieli Canada made its worst show ing ever and placed ninth with 27 record Jack MacDuff of St Johns Nfld won his first two games but lost his next seven Roberts didnt need to throw his final rock in the 10th end against Scotland on Sunday Muirhead attempted to freeze to US stone at the lefthand corner of the eightfoot circle but he was heavy and sailed through the house giving Rob erts the point Ill sleep well for the next 30 years said Roberts ad mitting he seriously went after the title following the 1967 com petition That was the year he skipped rink from North Dakota to record in roundrobin play then lost 76 to Canadian Bob Woods representing Sweden in the semifinal Roberts said he let down his rink early in the final missed three open hits in two ends and let Scotland back in the game he said We had em on the hook but couldnt set it The US led 41 after four en ds but Muirhead kept plugging away and tied the score with one on the fifth and two on the sixth The rinks traded single points on the second two ends with the US scoring first and Roberts intentionally blanked the ninth SPORTS SHORTS WINS RACE HAMILTON CP Rich Hughson 26 McMaster Uni versity student and member of the Toronto Olympic Club won the annual aroundthebay road race Saturday completing the l9mile course in one hour 42 minutes and fourtenths of second Dr Bob Moore also of the Toronto Olympic Club was second and Ken Inglis of Kitch enerWaterloo third ROMANIA WINS GROUP BIEL Switzerland Reuter Romania won the Group world hockey championship Saturday beating Bulgaria 94 in their final game The win gave Romania an unbeatable points total of 11 in the round robin tournament The victory qualifies Romania to join the Group championships next year TAKES CHAMPIONSHIP BRAMPTON ONT CP Netminder Michael Bishop tur ned aside 24 shots and Blake Ellis scored twice as Waterloo Cubs blanked Bolton Huskies to win the grand cham pionship of the 17th annual Brampton Lions atom hockey tournament Saturday Earlier in the day Bolton upset Oakville 62 and Waterloo defeated Pickering Village 52 BEST IN FOILS HAMILTON CP Donna McAvoy of Toronto Woodsmen club won the provincial ladies foil title in the Ontario fencing championships at McMaster University Saturday The champion lost one to Louise Leblanc of Ottawa and had four victories National foil cham pion Donna Hennyey Toronto Harmonie finished second The mens sabretitle went to Eli Su kunda Windsor who went unde feated Second went to Bob Foxcroft of oronto WINS GYMNASTIC MEET MISSISSAUGA Ont CP Elfi Schlegel of Toronto Xoces Eagles Saturday won the Cana dian selection gymnastic meet Miss Schlegel piled up total of 3440 points out of possible 40 finishing ahead of Laura Huot Montreal who scored 3302 points ROWDIES BEAT LANCERS ST PETERSBURG Fla AP Derek Smethurst scored three goals to pace Tam pa Bay Rowdies to 64 victory Saturday over Rochester Lan cers and to win the North American Soccer League in door championship Clyde Best added two goals and won the most valuable player award in the game played before ca pacity crowd of 5800 BLACK MAGIC FOR GOLF KUALA LUMPUR AP The Malaysian Golf Association admitted Sunday it had hired witch doctor to keep away rain during the fourday Malaysian Open golf championship The witch doctor did his job tour ney officials said Torrential rains fell during the four days of the tourney in various parts of Kuala Lumpur but none struck the course until the 72 hole event ended Sunday the dficials said HSU WINS OPEN CROWN KUALA LUMPUR AP Hsu ShengSan of Taiwan par red the third hole of sudden death playoff and beat Mya Aye of Burma for the title in the $30000 Malaysian Open golf championship Sunday Hsu had forced the playoff by rallying from four strokes back on the final round with threeunder par 69 and catching the pace setting Aye who carded 73 over the par72 6873yard Royal Selangor Golf Club cour se Both finished the regulation 72 holes with scores of 279 WINS PLAYOFF OITA Japan AP Takako Kiyomoto of Japan sank threefoot birdie putt on the fir st hole of suddendeath playoff Sunday and beat coun trywoman Nayoko Yoshikawa for the title in the $33000 Oita Tsukigata International womens golf tournament FIGHT CASH TAKEN PARIS AP Two masked gunmen stole Saturdays ticket receipts for Sunday nights Rodrigo ValdesMax Cohen world middleweight title fighta total of about $4250 police reported The men rob bed cashier as he was alone in the Pavillion de Paris the scene of the fight late Saturday night checking booking figures TROITER STOLEN NICE France AP Thieves stole an eightyearold trotter from racing stable near the Riviera resort of An tibes early Saturday police re ported The horse Careme was retired under French age rules after successful carreer on provincial French tracks but could still be raced in Switzer land or Spain ATHLETE DEFECTS AUCH France AP Albert Kovacs of Romania visiting France to compete in preOlympic international modem pentathlon competition last week defected from his team and applied Saturday for temporary political asylum in France officials said Sunday Kovacs 27 won the bronze medal at the world modern pen tathlon championships at Mos cow in 1974 Junior team beats Soviets SODERTALJ Sweden AP Ivan Hansen scored two key goals in the third period and helped Swedish junior team to surprising 97 comefrombe hind win over the Soviet Un ions national hockey team Sun day The Swedish team picked by committee of sports writers trailed 46 going into the third period Hansen myearold centre made it 56 at 331 and then gave the Swedes 76 lead at 644 after KjellArne Wik strom had tied the game 28 sec ondsearlier Hans Hansson and Kai Nurmi scored goals two minutes apart late in the third period to clinch the upset Alexander Golikov one of the few rookies on the Russian team scored three goals before crowd of 2813 Valery Kharlamov who has been sidelined withan injury hailed the last Soviet goal with minute left in the game SABRES LEFT NINE POINTS BEHIND In jurybu ttered Bruins clinche title By NEIL CAMPBELL Now all that remains is for Chicago Black Hawks and Van couver Canucks to decide who gets first place in the Smythe Division The injurybattered Boston Bruins clinched the third of the National Hockey Leagues divi sion titles Sunday night when they tied Montreal Canadiens The tie left Buffalo Sabres nine points behind the Bruins in the Adams Division standings Buffalo has only four games to play With division titles already wrapped up by Montreal and Philadelphia Flyers and the 12 playoff berths all occupied only the ChicagoVancouver race and the firstround playoff matchups remain to be decided In Sundays other games the Hawks beat Minnesota North Stars 53 Pittsburgh Penguins blanked Detroit Red Wings 34 New York Rangers defeated Kansas City Scouts 42 and At lanta Flames beat Washington Capitals 31 On Saturday the Rangers edged the Hawks 65 the Flyers ended Bostons Iiigame home winning streak with +4 tie Detroit trounced Atlanta 80 Montreal humbled Kansas City 82 Los Angeles Kings whipped Vancouver 73 St Louis Blues trimmed Minnesota 63 and Buffalo downed Toronto Maple Leafs 42 The playoff format gives the division leaders bye into the quarterfinal rounds making firstplace finish expecially im portant for the Bruins who need breathing space to lick their wounds Boston tied the Canadiens without Bobby Orr Brad Park Greg Sheppard and captain Johnny Bucyk all on the side lines with injuries Coach Don Cherry thinks Boston will play better with first place clinched Id like to see any other team with four key guys out play like this against Mon treal he said Well play better with the monkey off our backs Theres biggerjob ahead Don Marcotte and Wayne Cashman gave Boston 20 lead in the first period but Steve Shutt scored his 42nd goal and league scoring leader Guy La fleur his 52nd in the second pe riod to give the Canadiens the tie HAWKS ON TOP The Hawks who had won only three of their 12 previous games climbed past the idle Canucks back into the Smythe Division lead by defeating Min nesota Sea Pines title goes to Green HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC AP Hubert Green wont even try to become the first professional golfer since 1952 to win four tournaments in arow Green won his third con secutive torunament Sunday when he captured the Sea Pines Heritage tournament by five strokes but he wont even play in this weeks Greensboro Open Ive played six in row he said Im committed for the four after Greensboro If play Greensboro thats 11 in row Im not looking for Purple Heart he said In the last 14 years only Johnny Miller has won three in row He swept the first three titles in the 1974 season but one of those was rain abbreviated threeround event Greens streak started with the Doral Open which he won by six strokes and with record score It was worth 540000 Next it was the Jacksonville Open twostroke victory wor th$3500 Sundays win worth $43000 from the total purse of $215000 made Green the leading money winner with $132006 for the sea son and enabled him to set record of $118000vthe most ever collected in the span of three weeks Jerry McGee never in con tention for the title eventually took second He holed out from sand trap on the filial hole for a68and 279 total Ilale Irwin Don January and Gibby Gilbert were next at 280 January and Irwin had 675 and Gilbert 73 in the mild hazy weather Murphy struggled home with 76 and was one of fivca1281 Jack Nicklaus the defending champion just couldnt get anything going He shot Gary Player Lee Trevino and Tom Wciskopf were at 283 Trevino and Weiskopf shot 735 Player 69 Miller also had 73 for Z18 Greens win came with rela tive case He opened the days play with fourstroke margin led at least that much all the way and never was pressed Three records broken in Sr weightlifting SARNIA Ont CPI One Canadian record and two On tario records were broken in the Ontario senior weightlifting championships Saturday Marc Cardinal 19 of Ottawa set Canadian teenage record in the super heavyweight class with clean and jerk lift of 175 kilos 385 lbs breaking his own record of 1675 kilos He also set an Ontario mark for the combined clean and jerk and snatch with 300 kilo 661s lbs total breaking the old mark of 295 kilos Gary Bratty 19 of Stoney Creek set an Ontrio teenage neord in the 132 pound division with twolift total of 2225kilos 490l2 lbs Dave Dejardins St Cath arines won 114 pound division with twolift total of 150 kilos The 143pound champion was Ron Hayes of Belleville with twolift total of 2125 kilos 4675 lbs Bob Charlebois Ottawa was lfifrpound wrnner with twolift total of 210 kilos 37 lbs Terry lladlow Elliot Lakc took the 181 It class with 265 kilo 584 lbs lift The 198 lb winner was Bob Walt Belleville with com bined lift of 2825 kilos6223t lbs Don MacNeill Sarnia won the heavyweigh title with 2525 Kilo lift 556 lbs while Cardinal was super heavy weightchamp total of 17 lifters qualified for the Canadian champion ships May 24 at New West misterBC Making the team are Brad dy Hayes Dan Robitaille Ot tawa Hadlow Dennis Brillon Sarnia Paul Barrett Belle ville Bob Davidson Ottawa Bob and Art Walt Belleville Grant Matthew Ottawa Russ Prior Kitchener Bob Santavy Kincardine and Cardinal On the team are Jake Nienhuis Larry Yessie Sar nia Ceasar Dias Willowdale and Ron Magnini Ottawa Red Sox flavor color have Canadian touch WINTER HAVEN Fla CP Boston Red Sox can be ex pected to derive good deal of their color this season from Canadas Maple Leaf Pitcher Reggie Cleveland is back for his third season with baseballs defending American League champions while Fer guson Jenkins has just checked in with the New England club after stint with Texas Rangers Adding to the Canadian flavor of the Boston training camp outfielder is John Balaz native of Toronto who came from California Angels earlier this month Jenkins is 10year major BARRIE orNruar league veteran yet Boston may provide him with his first World Series appearance after time with Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs in the National League and the Rangers of the Americans West Division Im really hoping for good year said the 32yearold na tive of Chatham Ont The bal lclub already has some good ballplayers They have good pitching staffheck they traded away Roger Moret If Luis Tiant goes out there and pitches good game Rick Wise wants to go out and pitch good game And if Wise pitches good game Fergy wants to pitch good game CLINIC Olillli Complete Denture Service 726747121 10 Dimlop St Barrie Mimi Pit Martin and Dennis Hull carried most of the offensive burden for the the Hawks who snapped fivegame losing streak Martin scored two goals including the winner with Hull setting uppoth of Martins goals and scoring an insurance goal himself Bobby Sheehan and Cliff K0 roll had the other Chicago goals Chicago has 77 points Van couver 76 and St Louis with four games to play has 69 poin ts and mathematical chance of catching the Black Hawks Pittsburgh goalie Michel Plasse stopped 29 Detroit shots to earn his second shutout of the season as the Penguins moved into second place in the Norris Division one point ahead of Los Angeles Kings MAKES 100 SAVES Goalie Denis Herron had distressing weekend for the Scouts He played well enough although he allowed dozen goals as the Canadiens fired 59 shots at him on Saturday after noon and the Rangers had 53 on Sundaya total of 100 saves in 36hours Im sure geting practice stopping the puck he said Eddie Giacomin the Detroit goalie told me recently thats the way he learned when he was in the minors like to think something good will come of this but sometimes wonder The setback extended Kansas Citys winless streak to 23 games two short of the NHL mark set earlier this season by the Capitals Former Washington captain Bill Clement scored Atlantas first goal then set up Eric Vails winning marker and an insurance goal by Tim Eccles tone Tonight the Penguins and Leafs tied for third place among the teams qualifying for the preliminary playoff round play at Toronto and the Flyers visit the Islanders Reds tie Voyageurs By THE CANADIAN PRESS Rookie Greg Holst knocked in the rebound of Pierre Laga nieres powerplay slap shot at 1315 of the second period to give Providence Reds 22 tie with Nova Scotia Voyageurs in an American Hockey League game Sunday afternoon Providence opened the scor ing at the 139 mark of the first period when Ed Johnstone flip ped 10foot rebound of Holst drive behind Dave Elcnbaas But Nova Scotia tied the score 54 seconds into the second period when Donald Howsc tap pad in goalmouth pass from linematc Ron Andruff then took 21 lead at 551 when Chuck Luksa drove 30foot slap shot through the pads of goalie Yves Belanger In other AIII games Sunday Rochester Americans whipped Springfield Indians 60 New Haven Nighthawks defeated Baltimore Clippers 41 and Richmond Robins and Hershey Bears played to 66 tie In AHI games Saturday Hershey beat Richmond 52 and Rochester edged Springfield At Providence the Voyageurs finished with 4422 advantage in shots on goal and only the strong work of Belangerwho turned aside three breakaways in the third periodenabled Providence to escape with the tie Goaltender Ross Brooks registered his second shutout in his two starts as the Americans whipped the Indians at Roches ter yd TORONTO TOROS Jerry Zrmiak left heads for the ice after taking stiff check The Barrie Examiner Monda March 29 197611 from Bill Gratton of the Calgary Cowboys in their Sunday WHA contest id Toronto Calgary won 54 CPPhoto Win lifts Racers to top By NEIL CAMPBELL The Canadian Press It took only little more than 48 hours for Indianapolis Rac ers to climb to first place from last place in the cluttered stan dings of the World Hockey Associations Eastern Division 31 Sunday night win over New England Whalers lifted the Racers into top spot after Fridays 32 win over Cleveland Crusaders got them out of the division basement Coach Jacques Demers and his Racers cant afford to spend any time celebrating their lofty perch The standings are so closely bunched that they might find themselves back in last place and out of the playof fs at the end of the schedule Were in first place now and its going to be hard to get up out of there said Demers With three games left were not going to blow it Weve come long way over the last couple of months and Id hate to see it go out the win dow Indianapolis had 72 points af ter the weekend games New England 71 and Cleveland and Cincinnati Stingers 69 each Cleveland has played 75 games Indianapolis 76 and Cincinnati and New England 77 each CALGARY NIPS TOROS In Sundays other games Calgary Cowboys edged Toron to Toros 54 Winnipeg Jets trimmed San Diego Mariners and Houston Aeros downed Phoenix Roadrunners 74 On Saturday Quebec Nor diques defeated Calgary 64 and Phoenix defeated San Diego 52 Former Whaler Al Kartander scored two goals sandwiched SETS DICUS RECORD SANTA BARBARA Calif AP Borys Chambul of the University of Washington threw the discus 200 feet seven inches to highlight the 38th Annual Santa Barbara relays Satur day Chambul senior from Toronto set meet and school record with his toss the best by collegian this year His pre vious school record was 19310 but he bettered that three times Saturday The Olympic stand ard is 19610 Bit SPEEDY Aura 512155 Has Moved To Newer Larger Premises at the BAYMARI PLAZA Mile North of our Old location 7287911 Canadas foremosr Auto Glass Specialists around Brian McDonalds win ner for the Racers Rick Ley scored for the Whalers The Toros came up flat for game they needed to win in their battle to overtake Edmon ton Oilers for the final playoff spot in thevCanadian Division win over the Cowboys weary from Saturday night game in Quebec would have moved the Toros to within two points of the Oilers with two games in hand Two goals by Danny Lawson and one by exToro Gavin Kirk wiped out 32 Toronto lead in the third period George Mom son and Paul Terbenche were the other Calgary scorers SCORES TWICE Paul Henderson scored twice and Jerry Rollins 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